Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-27
OFFICIAL.
BOARD oF ALDERMEN.


At regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen
held April 20, 1887, there were present; e. h.
Downham, esq President and Messrs. Moore.
Burke, Strauss. Marbury, Leadbeater and smith
The Committee ON Light reported in fav1! o..
granting free gas to the amount of $50 per aunum
to the Young Mems Christian Association in their
building. No. 1877 King street, and to furnish gas
for a lamp erected by the association also favor
ably on the petition ofsundry citizens for the erec-
sion of gas lamp at the corner of Oronoco and
Patrick streets; also adversely on the proposition
of the United Gas Improvement Company to pur-
chase the Gas Works. and the reports were
adopted.
The Committee ON General Laws reported that
no action was necessary on the communication OF
| p. II. Sullivan manager of the Telephone Com
pany, 80 long as the Telephone Company affords
| the facilities desired also recommending the
sending of an act to amend the charter of the city
to Hon. C. E. Stuart with the request that he have
it enacted into law.
petition of J. T. Miller for permission to erect
frame addition to his premises was referred to
the Committee on Streets.
A bill of the Marine Railway, Shipbulding and
Coal Company. 1924, for lumter furnished the
Columbia engine house, was ordered to be paid.
Mr. W. A. Moore, member of the Board fl ON the
First ward, rendered his resignation as q member
of the Board of Aldermen, to take effect on the
3Oth of June next.
The Corporation Attorney returned the bills
against E. Burke, J. H. Greene and w. A. Cave for
rent of rooms in the Market House Building, with
| q communication stating that he had presented
| the bills and they were net paid; whereupon the
| following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the Corporation Attorney be- and
he is, hereby instructed to institute suits against
Edmund Burke, John II. Greene and w. A. Cave
to recover the amounts they severally stand in
debted to the City Council of Alexandria for rent
of rooms in tho Market House Building and that
| said Corporation Attorney, as tho agent of said
tho City Council of Alexandria, notify said par
ties according to law, 10 vacato the rooms sever
ally occupied By them in said building and in
the event the said parties, either, or any of
of them, refuse to deliver up possession of tho
to proceed in the name Of the said the City COun
ell of Alexandria by all proper legal proceedings
and measures to recover possession of said rooms.
A report OF the Finance Committee on the PEE
tition of Mrs. Mary Broadus for rebate on her
Improvement tax bill also petition OF Samuel
Pullman to have curb set &C. also petition of
sundry citizens for gas lamps at the corners Of
Alfred and Gibbon and Alfred and Franklin
streets also petition of sundry citizens in re-
gard to the ditch on Henry street also commu-
nication from ]. II. PARROT, agent; also g commu-
nication from ]. r. HILL Collector Northern Dis
trict also communication from the Auditor on
the bill of ii. n. Henry; also petition of j. T.
Miller for permission to rebuild q portico also
petition of Ellen Coleman for permission to erect
frame house also communication from tho
Clerk of the School Board were received from the
Common Council and their action concurred in.
The board then proceeded to the chamber of the
Common Council for the purpose of electing
School Trustee, and upon their return adjourned
Teste: JNo. J. JAMESON, Clerk.